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Microsoft is kicking off its Xbox One advertising today, in a way that focuses on the combined gaming and entertainment features of the console.  Microsoft calls it an invitation for an all-in-one console. Here is the ...

It's all about mobile, of course. But how can startups pull in cash from users? Let's face it, even top-notch companies have struggled with this.

Harvey Lippman, 59, is the CEO and sole owner of Genesis10, a $185 million technology staffing and consulting company in New York City that he founded in 1998. He started it in the wake of a business disaster. Earlier th...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ah, late October, when the holiday season is on the horizon. Hot cider. Dropping temperatures. And taxes?     

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Here's an amazing stat: Amazon hired 12,800 employees in the last three months. It now has 109,800 employees, compared to 97,000 last quarter and 81,400 a year ago, according to its quarterly earnings statement. At ...

The New York Times Editorial Board is fed up with the excuses coming from the White House over surveillance. In an editorial published Thursday, editor Andrew Rosenthal opens with the question, "Does anyone still believe...

McDonald's has lost its taste for Heinz ketchup.

The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 10/15/2013 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five Dow Jones Indus...

(Reuters) - World's biggest fast-food chain seeks new ketchup for its famous french fries.

Barneys isn't the only store being accused of racial discrimination. Now, Macy's has been slapped with a lawsuit implicating the luxury store of racial profiling. The New York Post reports that actor Robert Brown, who's ...

BMW unveiled the new 2 Series today, and both models — a base 228 i and a sportier M235i — look excellent. We have all the details here. But there's something odd in the press materials that accompanied the news. The...

Vespa has unveiled the 946, its first all-new model in six years, and it looks excellent.  The name, which feels like an odd way to Porsche's numerical naming system, is actually a tribute to the year 1946, when Vespa w...

Successful entrepreneurs often start with a "random" idea, but they quickly focus their efforts and follow a "system" to organize their startup and maximize the clout of their activities. Too many entrepreneur "wannabes"...

Halloween is like Christmas for candy makers. According to the National Confectioners' Association, we'll consume 600 million pounds of candy over the next week or so. Unreal Brands, our latest guest on The Unconvention...

TO GET someone else to do the hard work of bringing up your offspring for you is certainly one version of Darwinian success. Genetic analysis has shown it is indeed the case that many nests of many bird species harbour y...

Ending a tax that preys on the poor and is increasingly difficult to collect may provide the economic boost Rhode Island needs.

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- An autopsy was planned on a baby girl whose body was found on a conveyor belt by a worker sorting out cans and plastics at a Southern California recycling center.     

In desperate bid for relevance 'Joe the Plumber' proves Dems are the real racists with epic cross-burning tweet.

According to AllThingsD, Snapchat is considering raising another monster round of funding at a rumored $3.5 billion valuation. Kara Swisher and Mike Isaac report that the financing would inject "hundreds of millions of d...

Gate Global Impact announced at the recent United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit a plan to feature select companies from the U.N.'s soon-to-be-launched Social Enterprise Action Hub on the Gate Global Impact GATEWA...

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